Heavy Metal Contamination in Groundwater Sources

Pb uptake, accumulation, and translocation in plants: Plant physiological, biochemical, and molecular response: A review

“…It has long-term effects after its entrance into the soil environment because of its non-biodegradable property [ 172 ]. Ecologists have already developed numerous approaches to combat the Pb-metal, and some of them are already used but have not proved effective due to some technical and financial restrictions in their implementation [ 173 ]. Remediation of Pb-contaminated soils through thermal and chemical methodologies is ineffective as these are costly, difficult to operate, and cause soil degradation and sludge production [ 174 ].…”

Assessment and Impacts of Metal Recycling on Groundwater Quality in Ogijo, Ogun State, Nigeria

“…In their work, Raun et al ( 2013) observed metals such as iron, manganese, copper, chromium, nickel, lead, cobalt, cadmium and mercury in particulate matter emitted from metal recycling facilities in Houston, USA. Further studies shown the presence of metals in soils (Jenson et al, 2000;Ogunkunle et al, 2016;Fan & Wang, 2017;Olatunji et al, 2018) and groundwater (Adedeji et al, 2014;Ibe et al, 2020;Agrawal et al, 2021).…”

Role of nanohybrid NiO–Fe3O4 in enhancing the adsorptive performance of activated carbon synthesized from Yemeni-Khat leave in removal of Pb (II) and Hg (II) from aquatic systems

“…Heavy metals water contaminants such as mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, chromium, nickel, copper, iron ions, etc. in surface and underground water system can result from natural or synthetic sources [ [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] ] . Elements having atomic weights above 63 are heavy metals and have a specific gravity exceeding 4.0 [ 13 ].…”